Reviews

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Brighton Festival – ‘The South Country’ – Hugh Cutting, Rebecca Leggett & George Ireland

- 9 May 2024

We expected good – very good – and got more than excellent! Two years ago...

Brighton Festival –  Mahan Esfahani at Glyndebourne with Britten Sinfonia soloists

- 6 May 2024

Mahan Esfahani clearly loves hosting a party and that is how this afternoon turned out,...

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Brighton Festival –  London Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor)

- 6 May 2024

Samuel Barber’s ‘Adagio for Strings’ seemed a strange choice to launch a Festival, but I’m...

BREMF – The ‘Contenance Angloise’ – BREMF Consort of Voices, Deborah Roberts (director)

- 6 May 2024

Deborah Roberts scored another brilliant success with this afternoon concert of the mind-bendingly complex compositions...

BGMC air: Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus

- 5 May 2024

Well there could not have been a camper, more exuberant start to the festival than...

KEMBLE’S RIOT

- 5 May 2024

It hardly seems possible that Brighton Open Air Theatre is already ten years old and...

CARMEN

- 4 May 2024

The familiarity of Bizet’s most popular work makes it a must see choice for opera...

UTE LEMPER: THE TIME TRAVELLER

- 28 April 2024

To witness the brilliance of perhaps the greatest living chanteuse in the world in the...

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL

- 28 April 2024

Tudor histories fascinate, the intrigues, deceits, murderous intent and of course murder most real, make...

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN

- 24 April 2024

Whoever it was that decided to turn this iconic “Chick Flick” into a stage musical...

AN EXPERIMENT WITH AN AIR PUMP

- 20 April 2024

It’s the turn of the century in two parallel ages but we are placed in...

PUNCHLINE BY ANDREW KAY

- 13 April 2024

We’ve sometimes seen plays around comedians about to go on; but one who’s called on...